APC NEC members write Buhari, decry marginalisation

Members of the National Executive Council of the All Progressives Congress, under the aegis of the Forum of APC NEC members, have decried their continued exclusion from the party's affairs.
The forum members expressed their displeasure in a letter addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari.
A copy of the letter dated April 6, 2017, was made available to newsmen on Sunday. The letter was signed by the National Ex-Officio/South-West Coordinator, Omolayo Akintola.
The forum urged the President to impress it upon the Chief John Odigie-Oyegun-led National Working Committee of the party to urgently convene a NEC meeting to enable members deal with the issues undermining cohesiveness within the party's rank and file.
According to the letter, members of the forum had written several letters to the party's national chairman, "without any positive reaction hence this 'Save our party' request".
The forum noted that if nothing was done to address the concerns raised by party members across several levels, it might lead to 'preventable, avoidable and unnecessary intra-party cracks that the present situation might generate'.
The letter entitled, 'Save our party – APC', partly read, "To be noted for appropriate advice is the exclusion of a sizeable number of federating states from the scheme of things within the party because many states are not presently represented by party officers on the current National Working Committee, hence, the need to be having regular NEC meetings pending the much awaited amendment to the present party constitution.
"We, therefore, deemed it necessary putting this letter across for your timely actions to save our great party from preventable, avoidable and unnecessary intra-party/in-house cracks that the present situation might generate."